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• Churchill and de Gaulle met at Marrakesh, Morocco. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | TH]
• The keel of escort carrier Makin Island was laid down. ww2dbase [Makin Island | DS]
• HMS Activity embarked the No. 819 Naval Air Squadron. ww2dbase [Activity | CPC]
• USS Puffer arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]

• USS Ray arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Ray | Fremantle, Western Australia | CPC]

• USS Cero entered Milne Bay, Australian Papua, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Cero | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley covered the landing of supply ships at Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands before escorting the convoy back toward Guadalcanal. ww2dbase [Saufley | Bougainville, Solomon Islands | DS]

• USS Flier departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Flier | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Alabama arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Alabama | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]

• In Italy the US 5th Army opened its offensive on the Gustav Line in appalling weather, capturing Cervaro, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Cervaro, Lazio | AC, CPC]
• General Alphonse Juin's Free French Expeditionary Corps launched an attack inland of Monto Cassino towards Castel Sant'Elia in Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Cassino | AC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 was detached from the convoy consisted of oilers Nippon Maru, Kenyo Maru, and Kokuyo Maru in the Pacific Ocean. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]
• Submarine USS Thresher entered her patrol area in the Luzon Strait. ww2dbase [Thresher | Luzon Strait | DS]

• 1,000 Jews from Stutthof Concentration Camp arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; 120 men and 134 women were registered into the camp while 746 were gassed upon arrival. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]

• 296th Infantry Regiment, a US Army National Guard unit consisted of Puerto Ricans, departed Puerto Rico for the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Allied convoy JW-56A departed Liverpool, England, United Kingdom; it was consisted of 20 freighters and was escorted by 2 cruisers and 9 destroyers. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Liverpool, England | CPC]

• John C. Butler-class destroyer escort Tabberer was laid down at Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas, United States. ww2dbase [Tabberer | Houston, Texas | DS]

12 Jan 1944 Interactive Map